Studies on the prevalence and laboratory transmission of fascioliasis in animals in the Kashmir valley

Sharma, Rinku; Raina, O.K.

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“…Fascioliasis is more common in sheep and causes high economic loses to sheep rearing farmers. The incidence rate of fascioliasis in various climatic regions like tarai, hills and plains in northern region of India was recorded as 10.79% in cattle, 13.90% in buffaloes, 2.78% in sheep and 2.35% in goats (Sharma et al, 1989;Garg et al, 2009). One of the studies conducted in Gorakhpur district showed that about 94% of the buffaloes are infected with F. gigantica (Singh & Agarwal, 1981).…”

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Prevalence, diagnosis, management and control of important diseases of ruminants with special reference to indian scenario

Saminathan¹,

Rana²,

Ramakrishnan³

et al. 2016

JEBAS

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India possess huge livestock population, which is endangered by different endemic infectious diseases (bacterial, viral, protozoan and parasitic), which collectively causes significant economic losses to the landless poor farming community. Infectious diseases impose economic losses by causing morbidity, mortality, decreased production (milk, meat, wool etc.), decreased feed conversion ratio which results in reduced weight gain, decreased draught power and fertility. Furthermore, economic burden is also due to the cost of treatment, abortion, consequences on internal livestock movement, germplasm and international trade. In addition, some of the diseases are zoonotic and inflicts considerable impact on public health. Uncertain agrarian climate, unpredictable weather, drought, floods, migration of livestock, scarcity of fodders, and unhygienic zoo-sanitary and healthcare practices together resulted in endemicity of diseases ultimately leads to more incidence and prevalence of livestock and poultry diseases throughout the year. Synchronized monitoring and surveillance of disease throughout the country is a fundamental requirement for sustainable livestock production. With fairly developed telecommunication in India, following technologies like interactive voice response system, SMS through mobile/cell phones and toll-free landline phones (voice mail) are required for enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of

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Prevalence, diagnosis, management and control of important diseases of ruminants with special reference to indian scenario

Saminathan¹,

Rana²,

Ramakrishnan³

et al. 2016

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“…Investigations on in vitro F. gigantica infection of L. auricularia revealed: (1) younger snails (1-4 weeks) were not suitable for in vitro infections and had higher mortality (Prasad 1989); (2) a higher intake of infection from the bubaline origin than caprine/ovine origin F. gigantica miracidia (Dhar and Sharma 1986); (3) optimum temperature for in situ development of miracidia and metacercarial production was 25°C ± 0.5°C (Dhar and Sharma 1986); (4) laboratory infected snails had a lower metacercarial production than those collected from water bodies in the nature (Sharma et al 1989); (5) positivity of snails was inversely proportional to availability of space for miracidial migration at the time of in vitro infection (Dhar and Sharma 1986); (6) cercarial production occurred in waves, with an in-between 1 and 12 days resting period(s) and floating cysts of F. gigantica were produced in the first few waves of cercarial production cycles (Dhar and Sharma 1986); (7) no development and emergence of F. gigantica cercariae from L. auricularia occurred below 12°C and above 33°C, however, a temperature of 20°C was optimum for the purpose (Sharma et al 1989); (8) an infected snail, in optimum environmental conditions during autumn months was capable of producing sufficient number of F. gigantica MC, causing acute, clinical and fatal disease in ten buffalo yearlings. On an average 204 F. gigantica MC are produced per day by an infected snail (Sharma et al 1989); (9) over 95% cercariae shedding by the infected snails were observed during night between 6 pm and 6 am next day (Gupta and Yadav 1994); (10) unlike F. hepatica, the escaping site of F. gigantica cercariae from developing rediae in L. auricularia was not confined to birth pore(s) in the rediae.…”

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“…On an average 204 F. gigantica MC are produced per day by an infected snail (Sharma et al 1989); (9) over 95% cercariae shedding by the infected snails were observed during night between 6 pm and 6 am next day (Gupta and Yadav 1994); (10) unlike F. hepatica, the escaping site of F. gigantica cercariae from developing rediae in L. auricularia was not confined to birth pore(s) in the rediae. The freely floating cercariae could emerge out from any site of the redial elastic, acellular but sticky tegument, leaving behind a self healing indentation (Yadav et al 1997).…”

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Epizootiology, pathogenesis and immunoprophylactic trends to control tropical bubaline fasciolosis: an overview

Sharma¹,

Godara²,

Thilagar³

2011

J Parasit Dis

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On the Indian sub-continent, nearly 5,000 years ago, the domestication of the riverine buffalo-the incredible Asian dairy animal was initiated. It plays a versatile role in socio-economic upliftment of its owners from the rural agricultural communities in Asian, African, South American and a few European countries. Comparatively, buffaloes are lesser evolved and susceptible to infectious diseases than cattle. However, poor body thermoregulation and wallowing nature predisposed them to snail borne infections, especially tropical fasciolosis-an incessant major constraint on buffalo production and improvement programmes. This review article is an insight into the global prevalence, varied epizootiological factors, offers possible explanation to pathophysiological clinical signs, deleterious effects of the tropical liver fluke, involving hepato-biliary system, haemopoitic system, endocrine glands and their secretions, oxidative stress, altered metabolism and significant fall in food conversion efficiency with unaffected digestibility of nutrients. Besides, the authors have briefly discussed and reviewed the developments and significance of successful immunodiagnostic approaches for detecting and forecasting the disease during early pre-patency and feasibility of developing a cost effective immunoprotection strategies against tropical fasciolosis.

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“…In the absence of statistically and epidemiologic data, evaluating liver fluke prevalence in livestock based on liver condemnation statistics might be useful. Information about infections of cattle, sheep and goats with liver fluke in south-western Asia were reported from some countries such as Iraq (Al-Khafaji et al 2003), Pakistan (Sharma and Raina 1989), Saudi Arabia (Over et al 1992) and Turkey (Gül and Aydin 2008). An old report has only been published on prevalence of Liver fasciolosis in sheep, cattle, goats and buffaloes from Ahwaz, Iran (Ahmadi and Meshkehkar 2010), although several reports exist on those in other regions of Iran (Daryani et al 2006;Moghaddam et al 2004).…”

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Prevalence of liver fluke infections in slaughtered animals in Lorestan, Iran

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Fasciola spp. and Dicrocoelium dendriticum as liver flukes, contaminate ruminants and other mammalian extensively and cause major diseases of livestock that create considerable economic losses. This retrospective study has been done to evaluate contamination rate of slaughtered animals with fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis at Lorestan abattoirs. In this survey, prevalence rate of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in slaughtered animals in a 3-year period (2010-2013) has been analyzed. A total of 356,605 livestock including 265,692 sheep and 90,913 goats were slaughtered in the 3-year period and overall 39,613 (11.1 %) livers were condemned. Fascioliasis and dicrocoeliosis were responsible for 6.3 and 4.8 % of total liver condemnations in this period, respectively. Fasciola spp. and D. dendriticum infection in sheep (7.1 and 5.6 %, respectively) were considerably higher than goats (3.9 and 2.6 %, respectively). The annual prevalence rates showed a significant decline in the fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis infection in goats (p \ 0.001). Data showed significant seasonal pattern for distomatosis in sheep and goats (p \ 0.001). Liver condemnations due to fasciolosis were prevalent in sheep and goats slaughtered during spring and autumn, respectively, whereas dicrocoeliosis were common in spring season for both sheep and goats. This survey provides baseline data for the future monitoring of these potentially important parasitic infections in the region.

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Studies on the prevalence and laboratory transmission of fascioliasis in animals in the Kashmir valley

Cited by 40 publications

References 2 publications

Prevalence, diagnosis, management and control of important diseases of ruminants with special reference to indian scenario

Prevalence, diagnosis, management and control of important diseases of ruminants with special reference to indian scenario

Epizootiology, pathogenesis and immunoprophylactic trends to control tropical bubaline fasciolosis: an overview

Prevalence of liver fluke infections in slaughtered animals in Lorestan, Iran

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